Search results for ""Author Colin McGinn""
Ediciones Cátedra El significado del asco
El asco está considerado como una emoción peculiarmente humana. Pero en qué consiste el que algo sea asqueroso? Qué es lo que agrupa a ciertas cosas en tanto que desencadenantes de una emoción de asco? Colin McGinn pretende analizar lo que hay en el fondo del asco, argumentando que la vida y la muerte están implícitas en su significado. El asco es un tipo de emoción filosófica que refleja la actitud humana hacia el mundo biológico. Incluso aunque sea una emoción que nos esforzamos por reprimir. Inicialmente surge, con toda probabilidad, como un método para refrenar el insaciable deseo humano, que, a su vez, es el resultado de nuestra poderosa imaginación. Al sentir asco hacia nosotros mismos como especie, nos situamos ante un tenso dilema emocional: nos admiramos por nuestros logros, pero también experimentamos un sentimiento de repulsión hacia nuestra necesaria naturaleza orgánica. Somos presa de una división en nuestros afectos. La muerte implica asco en forma de cadáveres putrefacto
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MIT Press Ltd Philosophy of Language: The Classics Explained
£32.00
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through 20th Century Philosophy
£13.34
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Problems in Philosophy: The Limits of Inquiry
This advanced introductory text offers a synoptic view of philosophical inquiry, discussing such topics as consciousness, the self, meaning, free will, the a priori, and knowledge. The emphasis is on the fundamental intractability of these questions, and a theory is proposed as to why the human mind has so much difficulty in resolving them. This theory turns upon a naturalistic picture of the scope and limits of human intelligence.
£33.95
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Problem of Consciousness: Essays Towards a Resolution
Can consciousness be fitted into a naturalistic worldview or is it inherently mysterious? In virtue of what does a physical organism come to have an inner conscious life? This book argues that we are not equipped to understand the workings of conciousness, despite its objective naturalness. Introspection does not reveal the hiddent structure of consciousness and it is this that joins experience to the material world.
£33.95
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Mental Content
Aimed at philsophy graduates this book investigates mental content in a systematic way and advances a number of claims about how mental content states are related to the body and the world. Internalism is the thesis that they are; externalism is the theory that they are not.
£44.95
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Wittgenstein on Meaning, ASM Volume 1: An Interpretation and Evaluation
A book examining and critically evaluating Ludwig Wittgenstein's views on meaning, understanding, and rules Wittgenstein on Meaning, ASM Volume 1, offers an in-depth interpretation of Wittgenstein's views regarding meaning, understanding and rules. Then, based upon this interpretation, the book shares a critical assessment of these views. The positions of the philosopher are discussed and evaluated, including his emphasis on rule-following behavior. The volume is part of the Aristotelian Society Series.
£40.95
